ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy track and field team travels to Fairfax, Va. for the annual Patriot Games on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 28-29 at the George Mason Field House. Competition begins with the multi events on Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. The multi events continue on Saturday morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. Field events are slated for Saturday at 10:00 a.m., while the running events start at 10:30 a.m.
 
The meet will be closed to the general public.
 
Live Results
Live results will be available throughout the meet.
 
Meet Participants
American, Catholic, Christopher Newport, Davidson, George Mason, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, La Salle, Loyola, Mary Washington, Maryland, Mount St. Mary's, Navy, St. Mary's (Md.), Towson, UMBC, VCU, and William & Mary
 
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Spectator Policy
Due to the ongoing pandemic, CDC recommendations, and the physical constraints of the Field House, the Patriot Games will be closed to the general public to provide a safe environment for the student-athletes to compete. Thus, this allows for optimal social distancing for the student-athletes, officials, and coaches.
 
Meet Schedule

Multi Events		Running Events
4:00 p.m.	Pentathlon (start – Friday)	9:30 a.m.	60m Hurdles (Heptathlon)
4:15 p.m.	Heptathlon (start – Friday)	10:30 a.m.	60m Hurdles (W/M – Prelims)
6:00 p.m.	5,000m (M – Friday)	11:00 a.m.	60m Dash (W/M – Prelims)
6:30 p.m.	5,000m (W – Friday)	11:35 a.m.	Distance Medley Relay (W)
		11:55 a.m.	1,000m Run (Heptathlon)
Field Events		12:00 p.m.	Distance Medley Relay (M)
10:00 a.m.	Long Jump (W)	12:15 p.m.	60m Hurdles (W/M – Semis)
10:00 a.m.	Weight Throw (M)	12:35 p.m.	60m Dash (W/M – Semis)
10:10 a.m.	Pole Vault (Heptathlon)	12:50 p.m.	1-Mile Run (W/M)
Follows Hep	Pole Vault (W)	1:30 p.m.	60m Hurdles (W/M – Finals)
11:00 a.m.	High Jump (M)	1:45 p.m.	60m Dash (W/M – Finals)
12:00 p.m.	Weight Throw (W)	2:00 p.m.	400m Dash (W/M)
Follows Women	Long Jump (M)	3:00 p.m.	500m Dash (W/M)
1:00 p.m.	High Jump (W)	3:30 p.m.	800m Run (W/M)
2:00 p.m.	Shot Put (M)	3:50 p.m.	1,000m Run (W/M)
2:00 p.m.	Triple Jump (W)	4:10 p.m.	200m Dash (W/M)
Follows Women	Pole Vault (M)	5:00 p.m.	3,000m Run (W/M)
Follows Women	Triple Jump (M)	5:35 p.m.	4x400m Relay (W/M)
4:00 p.m.	Shot Put (W)

 
Student-Athlete Spotlight: Alexa Arthun
Senior team captain Alexa Arthun (Manhattan, Mont.) from Navy women's track and field is the subject of this week's Student-Athlete Spotlight, presented by Northrop Grumman. VIDEO
 
Track and Field Claims Multiple Weekly Honors
The Navy track and field team had three student-athletes – Alex Rizzo (Bronxville, N.Y.), Katie Halbert (Keller, Texas), and Greyson Gravitt (Flower Mound, Texas) – combine to win four weekly accolades for their performances last weekend at the annual Wesley Brown Invitational.
 
Rizzo and Gravitt claimed the Patriot League Men's Track Athlete and Rookie of the Week honors respectively. On the women's side, Halbert was named PL Field Athlete of the Week, while also being named the NAAA Co-Athlete of the Week presented by Northrop Grumman.
 
Halbert shared the NAAA Athlete of the Week honor with Jennifer Coleman of Navy women's basketball.
 
Rizzo won the 1-mile run with a career-best time of 4:00.98, taking the event by two and a half seconds. The junior's time was the third fastest in Navy history and was less than a second away from becoming the second athlete in Navy school history to run a sub-4-minute mile. Rizzo's time ranks 28th in the NCAA this season and is the fastest in the Patriot League this year. The time was an IC4A qualifying time and set the Wesley A. Brown Field House facility record.
 
Halbert registered three school records during the pentathlon on opening night of the Wesley Brown Invitational, setting the school record in the 60m hurdles, long jump, and pentathlon. The indoor captain opened up the meet with a school-record performance of 8.66 in the 60m hurdles, besting the previous time, originally set in 2007, by 0.04 seconds. With her first attempt in the long jump, she registered a distance of 5.98m (19-07.50) to beat the previous record by 0.05m (originally set in 2007). In the fifth and final event of the pentathlon, Halbert tallied 707 points to give her the victory in the multi-event and tie the Navy school-record 3,709 total points.
 
Gravitt recorded an IC4A qualifying mark in the 800m, winning the event with a time of 1:53.68. The freshman's time was the second-best of the season for Navy and tops among freshmen. Gravitt's time ranks fourth in the Patriot League (top freshman) in the event.
 
Last Time Out: Wesley Brown Invitational (Jan. 21-22, 2022)
Team captain Katie Halbert (Keller, Texas) registered three school records as Navy track and field hosted the annual Wesley Brown Invitational over the weekend in Annapolis. Halbert set the school record in the 60m hurdles, long jump, and pentathlon.
 
Halbert set her school records on Friday night of competition as part of the multi-events. The Keller, Texas native opened up the meet with a school-record performance of 8.66 in the 60m hurdles. With her first attempt in the long jump, she registered a distance of 5.98m (19-07.50) to best the previous record by 0.05m. In the fifth and final event of the pentathlon, Halbert tallied 707 points to give her the victory in the multi-event and tie the Navy school-record 3,709 total points.
 
Erin Higgins (Ashburn, Va.) finished the pentathlon with 3,691 points, which ranks third in Navy history. Annie Taylor (Nashville, Tenn.), who set the Navy record in the pentathlon last season, finished third with 3,520 points to once again add her name to the Navy top 10 (seventh).
 
On the men's side, Baynes Autrey (Mountain Brook, Ala.) tallied 5,332 points in the heptathlon to finish second at the meet behind Princeton's Andrei Iosivas, who registered 5,715 points. Autrey's performance was the third best in Navy history and his total and performance in the 60m hurdles were both IC4A qualifiers.
 
Navy finished the day with 50 IC4A / ECAC qualifying times / marks with the women tallying 15 ECAC qualifiers and the men's team registering 35.